Stop Haggard Farms West Rezoning

Here are documents relevant to this case

Final documents discussed at the Sept 2 P&Z meeting. It is saved in 2 parts - its 53 pages total. (Just for Haggard Farm.) 

P&Z Packet for Sep 2 meeting Haggard Part 1 

P&Z Packet for Sep 2 meeting Haggard Part 2   

Here is the Neighborhood response to the Zoning Request

Statement of Position by the Concerned Citizens of West Plano

The Plano Star Courier news article and the April 2014 HOA statement have good summaries of the issues. It also shows that in spite of concerns raised by us and the P&Z staff in April, the developer made almost no adjustments to his plan.

Zoning Area Building height

Plano Star courier article

Windhaven Farms HOA statement of position April 2014

Statement of position August 2014

Here is the September 2 P&Z meeting notice and the P&Z reply form (also referred to as the Objection Form).  At the P&Z meeting on September 2nd, the staff noted that they had received 280 responses "and counting" (only 3 supported the change request). Thank you for getting involved and sending in your response!! See the "Send a Letter" Page for examples and summaries of the responses filed with the P&Z.

NEW!!  Below hear a recording of the comments or the commissioners after hearing the developers presentation and the Neighborhood comments.  Also get the link to replay the whole P&Z meeting online.  The online broadcast allows watching of just the relevant segment of the P&Z meeting.

Zoning Map presentation  

Recording of commissioners comments of September 2.

Link to online replay of P&Z meeting of September 2 

August 8 Letter from P&Z with response form

Long Form response to P&Z (Objection Form)

Reasons to object to Zoning Request



Summary of the P&Z Documents.

Because 53 pages of documents is too much for many readers to get through, we have condensed the information into two documents. The first is a 1 1/2 page summary of the staff recommendations to the P&Z commission and the second is the actual 8 pages of staff discussion and recommendations.

Summary of Staff Recommendations

Summary of Staff Findings and Recommendations   

Here is information about the zoning change request and neighborhood communications.  If you have a statement of position or personal opinion, please send it to james@stophaggardfarms.com and we will post your comments to the "Send a Letter: page. 

The document from the planning and Zoning staff is long but if you study it, you can fully understand the request and the concerns of the P&Z staff.

Thank you to all that completed the Objection Form above and mailed it to the P&Z.  It truly made a difference.

There is a related zoning request involving 8 acres at the Southwest corner of Spring Creek Parkway and Parkwood Blvd. This is a Special Use Permit for a 20 story condo tower. Although P&Z approved this at the September 2nd meeting, at the September 22nd City Council meeting, approval was rejected and sent back to P&Z because there is an actual zoning amendment that must be approved in the developer's plan. While this is viewed as a technical amendment, we will evaluate the matter and provide more details once the case is filed.

contact us at:

james@stophaggardfarms.com

Q&A

On Sun, 8/24/14, Victoria wrote:

Quick question .. I just  printed out the Reply Form ... are we FOR or AGAINST the  rezoning?

I wasn't sure if the Reply Form is the request to rezone from residential to commercial ??!!!

 Sorry ... just want  to understand and check the right box! :)

 Victoria

 Response

We are against this request.  I agree the form is confusing because it is discussing zoning changes to 6 different tracts at once.  The tracts include one tract that is currently zoned for multi-family and would allow 341 units and the other 5 tracts are currently zoned for retail and low rise office space.  The requested change would allow Urban Mixed Use (UMU) high rise development in all 6 tracts.  This would allow 30 story buildings on some parts and would allow urban style apartments (very high concentration like Austin Ranch) in the whole area from the Tollway to the intersection of Windhaven and Spring Creek Parkway (4890 apartments plus high rise office buildings).(that is a mile long).  So while the form says it is to change from existing office and  apartment zoning to UMU, it is changing the zoning to allow the number of apartments to increase from 341 to over 4800, together with highly dense office & retail buildings without required setbacks from the road and without required green space.